bell karen new customers, including AT&T, Bell South, IBM, MCI WorldCom, and Yale University. In addition, during the quarter PeopleSoft announced that Brio.Report would be its standard enterprise reporting solution. Brio Enterprise 6.0 also became certified for SAP Business Information Warehouse. Market Impact Brio Technology describes their Brio ONE product as the combination of the strengths of Brio and SQRIBE in business intelligence, enterprise reporting, and enterprise information portal software . Following
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bell karen a completed divestiture from Bell Canada). It's a smaller company than its competitors, with fewer than 100 clients and fewer than 30 employees, which raises concerns of viability from some prospects. nuBridges Strengths The company's integrated B2B gateway and MFT suite enable nuBridges to offer common security and communications protocols, trading partner management and packaged integrated processes, such as Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard compliance and CSOS. nuBridges has a strong
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The Midsized Company: ERP RevisitedEnterprise resource planning (ERP) is no longer just for giant companies. Time and critical mass have dramatically cut the cost, complexity, and speed to value

bell karen it really be this bell or that whistle? Or will it be real-time –– or near-real-time –– information, one version of the truth flowing everywhere at once? It’s time for you, too, to revisit ERP software –– its cost, its implementation, its best-of-suite capabilities and its time to value. The fact is, you will need an ever-stronger organizational house to weather the winds of change –- and there is just no way to build a safe, secure house without a sturdy ERP foundation. YOU NEED A STRONG
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bell karen of engineering for Technology Concepts/Bell Atlantic, where he led the design and implementation of the SS7 800 Database front-ends, now deployed nationwide. His experience also includes Digital Equipment Corp., where he led the company's first TCP/IP deployment. Fred has taught computer science, statistics and survey research courses at the University of Connecticut, Boston College and Boston University. He frequently speaks at leading networking industry forums, including Networld+Interop, COMDEX,
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bell karen APAC Customer Services, Inc., Bell Atlantic, Lands' End, Lexica LLC, SmarterKids.com and Solipsa. Market Impact One of the driving forces in Internet e-commerce is communication and responsiveness to the end user, or buyer. Strong communication and response time indicate to the buyer that they are valued clients. If a client feels that their needs have been attended to they are far more likely to become a repeat client. The typical Internet vendor response time to a client issue ranges between 24 and 48
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bell karen Exchange 2013 Part Two: Will Pacific be Progress Software’s PaaS to Relevance? By P.J. Jakovljevic ( see bio ) and Bob Eastman ( see bio ) Last week in the TEC blog , we discussed Progress Software’s history and current focus. The company has experienced many changes in the last couple of years, including divestiture of some large assets (including Sonic, Actional, and DataXtend), and a new focus. We also mentioned the Progress Exchange 2013 conference earlier this month, where CEO Phil Pead
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bell karen sector, Bayer HealthCare and Bell Sports both spoke of the challenges of getting product to market, the need for shorter product lifecycles, and their visions for implementing Agile PLM within their respective organizations. From the automotive sector, Intier Automotive Seating spoke of its transformation from a company with several diverse purchasing and engineering systems, to a company with a common integrated PLM solution for unifying functional business areas and global sharing of business
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bell karen Technology Make CFO's and Controller's Jobs More Strategic? (Part 2) Part 1 of this blog series established that by offloading non-essential and non-value-adding routine tasks to third-party business process outsourcing (BPO ) specialists, many human resource (HR) and payroll managers are now able to focus more on strategic and more important tasks of managing talent and human capital of the company. The discussion then went into the possible liberation of chief financial officers (CFOs) and
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CRM Secrets of ROI and TCOThere is a real cost associated with buying and using a customer relationship management (CRM) software system. Licensing, implementation, integration, and

bell karen the zones using a bell curve. The Competitive Zone comprises the middle portion where the most common level of support occurs across the market; of course the Industry Average line is normalized at the apex. The Minimal Support and Dominant Zones are at each of the low ends of the curve. We consider that any product providing a level of support below the Minimal Support line only offers the bare essentials, or else is simply not competing for customers that need that sort of functionality. Products that
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bell karen has close ties with Bell Canada through the BCE holding company, which accounts for almost 40% of CGI sales and owns about 45% of CGI. Under the terms of the partnership CGI will deliver consulting services to assist its customers with thinkAnalytics' flagship thinkCRA product. thinkCRA is an integrated suite containing four analytical applications thinkCustomer performs customer segmentation thinkLoyalty predicts churn and attrition thinkProduct provides product and channel analysis and target group
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bell karen rang the day's opening bell, joined by NetSuite Founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chairman of the Board, Evan Goldberg, and NetSuite chief financial officer (CFO) Jim McGeever. The IPO, which turned out to have garnered $50 million more than that of Salesforce.com of a few years ago, is certainly another indicator of how mainstream the software as a service (SaaS) model has become and what might be in the store for 2008 . Still, it remains to be seen how much this future visibility will help
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